Canton, NORTH CAROLINA

Jan 29, 2008 - Thomas Allen Jr., 45, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Canton Middle School, was arrested and charged him with felony solicitation of a child by computer to commit an unlawful sex act.

Police allege Allen tried to solicit sex over the Internet from an officer posing as a 15-year-old boy.

Allen was initially suspended by the school district. “We are in the dismissal process,” Bill Nolte, associate superintendent of Haywood County Schools, said. “Information will be forwarded to the Department of Public Instruction, and they will make a decision about whether or not licensure is maintained or revoked. The board will be presented with dismissal action at their Feb 11 meeting.
Thomas Eric Allen Jr.,